🦎
American alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐻❄️
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
44,863 views between them.
Polar bear outweighs American alligator 2.5× — 372 kg against 150 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
150 kg
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
372 kg
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
1.45 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Body length
4.6 m
🦎 American alligator · ReptTraits
2.25 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
39 km/h
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Bite force
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
2,121 N
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
45 yr
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.